{"id":5947,"date":"2024-02-09T16:08:29","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T21:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/?page_id=5947"},"modified":"2026-05-20T13:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T18:33:09","slug":"karim-al-zand-music-vespertine-songs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/?page_id=5947","title":{"rendered":"Karim Al-Zand: Music: Vespertine Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Vespertine Songs<\/h2>\n

four songs for baritone (or mezzo-soprano) & piano<\/h4>\n

V<\/span>espertine Songs are melodies of the night. Of an Evening<\/i> is drawn from the descriptive prose of Charles Dickens (1812\u20131870), whose brooding evocation of a darkening city (mostly drawn from his novel Martin Chuzzlewit<\/i>) emphasizes a timeless, cyclic quality. \"\"<\/a>Marina Tsvetaeva\u2019s (1892\u20131941) Insomnia<\/i> has us wandering with a sleepless night owl and finding no solace in the streets. In Points and Lines<\/i> Aldous Huxley (1894\u20131963) paints a beautiful metaphor of a night sky, a summer lake and the revelatory wonder of stars. \u201cAnne Knish\u201d is a pseudonym of Arthur Davison Ficke (1883\u20131945), a conservative American poet whose many \u201cspectralist\u201d poems like Nocturne<\/i> parodied the imagist movement, represented by poets like Amy Lowell<\/a>. Poetic irony then, that these are the only verses for which Ficke is now remembered. Nocturne<\/i> is a nighttime soundscape of sorts: the enveloping noises of the evening fade into the distance, replaced by something even more magical.<\/br><\/br><\/p>\n

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purchase score & parts<\/span><\/h4> <\/span>Learn More<\/span><\/a> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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DATE
\n2023<\/br><\/br><\/p>\n

DURATION
\n11 minutes<\/br><\/br><\/p>\n

INSTRUMENTATION
\nbaritone (A#2\u2013E4) (or Mezzo-Soprano), piano<\/br><\/br><\/p>\n

PREMI\u00c8RE
\nMarcus DeLoach, baritone; Grant Loehnig, piano<\/br><\/br><\/p>\n

SONGS
\n1. Of an Evening (Dickens)
\n2. Insomnia (Tsvetaeva)
\n3. Points and Lines (Huxley)
\n4. Nocturne (Anne Knish = Arthur Davison Ficke)<\/br><\/br><\/p>\n

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SCORE
\nBaritone: PDF<\/a>
\nMezzo-Soprano: PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

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AUDIO<\/p>\n

Of An Evening

<\/div><\/div><\/div>Insomnia
<\/div><\/div><\/div>Points and Lines
<\/div><\/div><\/div>Nocturne
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VIDEO<\/p>\n